In a conference call on Wednesday, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant kicked off the effort by announcing royalty-bearing licensing programs for its Windows FAT file system and ClearType ...

The Redmond, Wash., company on Monday unveiled an early version of Microsoft Product Licensing Advisor, a new online service designed to help IT users make product selections, find the most ...

The U.S. District Court in Washington will review on Sept. 11 the state of the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program, which is Microsoft’s program for licensing more than 200 proprietary protocols ...

Microsoft on Thursday posted fiscal first quarter revenue of $8.22 billion in part due to a 15% increase in licensing for enterprise software servers including Windows, SQL Server and Exchange. But a ...

Microsoft’s licensing of its software and services in the cloud is getting it into more hot water in Europe. This time it’s a group of Spanish startups that has called on regulators to investigate ...

Back in April 2024, Microsoft revealed the pricing for the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10. Later in the year at the end of October, the company added information related to ...